From: ptkwt@...2.teleport.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2000-12-10T12:40:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6995] block syntax/def syntax question/suggestion


Being very new to Ruby (2-3 days) and very familiar with Perl, I tend to
prefer { .. } for block delimiters.  From what I can tell in Ruby you can
use either do .. end or { .. } for blocks.  What if that flexibility was
also allowed for method definitions so that you could have:

def somemethod {
  ...
}

in addition to the current syntax:

def somemethod 
  ...
end


Perl and C folks would feel more 'at home' and it would be consistent with
the flexibility allowed for block definitions.  (and vi users could still
use the brace matching feature, shift-5, to find the start and end of a
method definition - yeah, I know, a method should be much shorter than a
page length, but sometimes it happens.).

Phil